Beam Me Up, Scotty

It look like it’s time to run for the hills again.

This is the last message we send to the European countries. We are giving you one month for your soldiers to leave the Land of the Two Rivers. Then there will be no other messages, but actions, and the words will be engraved in the heart of Europe.

Doesn’t sound very good, does it? It’s part of a statement posted last Saturday on a web site know to be a clearing house for Islamic extremist material. The statement is posted by one of the at least two groups that claimed responsibility for the London bombings. The authenticity of the statement has not been verified, but I guess you can’t really verify any of this until something blows up. The group has claimed responsibility for all kinds of things before, like the 2003 blackouts in the United States – which was caused by technical problems.

This was posted on June 16, which means the timing is just excellent for my August 13 trip to Italy, one of the countries that will supposedly be blown to pieces around that time. But even if it happens, the odds of me losing a limb is pretty slim. If I do, it was nice to know you.